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Construction of geochemical maps of risk element concentrations in soils and finding places, where soils were contaminated by anthropogenic activities, can seem like routine tasks. However, the routine lies in only almost automated production of a colo...

In the Krkonoše Mountains there is a glacial relic of otherwise a very abundant woody species in the northern tundra, the dwarf shrub crowberry (Empetrum nigrum). Although it is a very tiny shrub, it forms rings like trees. It is thus a witness to envi...

Researchers from UJEP, in cooperation with the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, are preparing powdered nanosorbents based on cerium and bismuth oxides, which can remove not only pesticides from water, but also substanc...

Such functionalities were demonstrated by comparing different cerium oxides, experiments carried out by a joint team of scientists from UJEP, the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Military Research Institute in Brno and the Wroclaw University of Environme...

Carbon nanomaterials include many materials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, graphene oxide and fullerenes. The properties and chemical nature of individual carbon materials are related to their structure and the presence of other elements in the ca...

The article deals with simple methods of groundwater decontamination from the vicinity of brownfield locations. Research has shown that the vast majority of contaminated water can easily be decontaminated by relatively cheap and simple methods in serie...

Pyrolysis, classified as a tertiary (thermochemical) plastics recycling process, is currently promoted as an effective solution for recycling a wide range of plastic wastes. Although it is not a new technology, it is just now finding an economically su...

Restoring Natural Forests as the Most Efficient Way to Water Quality and Abundance: Case Study from Želivka River Basin One of the old folk proverbs says: "Where there is a forest, there is water." A perceptive nature observer, the Austrian forester V...

Metal-organic frameworks, MOFs, are hybrid coordination polymers consisting of inorganic nodes linked together via organic ligands called linkers. MOFs are  3D crystalline structures with high surface area and porosity. Due to the high number of possib...

The publication, which was prepared in collaboration with colleagues from the Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation of the Technical University of Liberec, follows up the previous research on energy plants and their potentia...